An initial idea sketched onto the back of a receipt at work which moved from sketchbook, to pen and ink illustration, to physical object.
Diamonds in diamonds in your ears.
Spurred on from the experimentation for a new shaped zine, shapes interlocked and the overall idea for a set of earrings came about, I already loved the compliment of brazed copper for jewellery so designed with the use of those materials in mind and keeping vigilant of their flaws and limitations, which meant a very simplified design to the initial versions as to minimise damage through reheating for multiple brazes.
To polish, after shaping a brazing, a normal polishing wheel wouldn’t reach around the intricate curves so a rotary tool with soft wire brush was used to clean away debris from within the shapes and then a heavy polishing abrasive to give the desired satin finish.